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Job summary

Main area
mental health
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 10 sessions per week
Job ref
395-MED435-24
Employer
NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
King George Hospital
Town
Ilford
Salary
£52,530 - £82,400 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
11/07/2024 23:59

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LIAISON OLD AGE PSYCHIATRY SPECIALTY DOCTOR (ILFORD)

NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Job overview

Please note:  We reserve the right to close the advert, at any time, in the event of receiving suitable applicants.

LIAISON OLD AGE PSYCHIATRY SPECIALTY DOCTOR

 Job Details:

Salary

£52,530 - £82,400 per annum

Contract

Substantive

Hours

Full-time: 10 Programmed Activities (DCC:SPA = 8:2)

On call

Optional

Location

King George Hospital, Barley Lane, Ilford, IG3 8YB

Qualifications needed:

  • Full GMC Registration with a license to practice
  • Section 12 certification, or a commitment to work towards this.
  • Mastery in the management of a broad range of mental disorders in older adults
  • At least 4 years of full-time postgraduate training (or its equivalent gained on a part-time basis) of which at least 2 years will be in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty or as a fixed term specialty trainee or shall have equivalent experience and competencies

Main duties of the job

To be successful in your application, you will need:

  • To demonstrate that your values are in line with that of NELFT’s values,
  • To be innovative, motivated, and passionate about older adult mental health care,
  • Essential understanding of current developments in mental health care,
  • To be a team player

NELFT Benefits:

  • Relocation expenses
  • Career Development and training
  • Just & Compassionate Culture
  • Award winning Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion initiatives
  • Vivup employee benefits platform and salary sacrifice scheme
  • Salary Finance and Financial Wellbeing support
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Health & Wellness initiatives
  • 11 Staff Networks including parents & carers network, ethnic minorities network, LGBT+ network and Disability network to name a few
  • Retail Discounts
  • Flexible working and agile working
  • Cycle to work scheme

Working for our organisation

Why NELFT?

NELFT is an award-winning community and mental health Trust, providing healthcare for over 4.9 million people, ensuring our patients, family and friends feel confident that their health needs are met. We are committed to delivering the best care to the communities we serve across North East London, Essex and Kent. 

With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled healthcare professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care. Joining us will provide you with unparalleled access to training opportunities, continuous CPD, peer support groups, and a robust supervision and appraisal system.

We are currently recruiting for an Old Age Psychiatry Specialty Doctor in the Older Adult Psychiatric Liaison Team, based at King George Hospital, Barley Lane, Ilford, IG3 8YB. This is a well-established post, which is currently vacant. We are keen to recruit to this post as soon as possible.

You will work alongside 1wte Older Adult Consultant Psychiatrist (currently out to recruitment), 1wte Adult Consultant Psychiatrist (currently out to recruitment), 1wte Adult Psychiatry Specialty Doctor (Dr Adewunmi Ogunseye), a Senior Trainee, and a Foundation Year doctor within the service, and will have the opportunity to influence future direction, treatment, and models of design in the area in which you work.

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be expected to:

  • Work as part of multidisciplinary teams providing care to older adult people with mental health needs, across Redbridge, Havering, Barking and Dagenham.
  • Provide senior medical support to the team, and direct input on clinical cases
  • Provide guidance and supervision to the team
  • Work directly with older adults and their families and liaise as appropriate with community old age consultant psychiatrists and specialty doctors in mental health
  • Work alongside 2wte Consultant Psychiatrists, 1wte Specialty Doctor, 1wte Senior Trainee, and 1wte Foundation Year Trainee.
  • Develop links already established with the local acute trusts’ A&E departments and adult services

Person specification

GMC

Essential criteria
  • Full GMC Registration with a license to practice

Section 12

Essential criteria
  • Section 12 certification, or a commitment to work towards this.

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Mastery in the management of a broad range of mental disorders in older adults

Experience

Essential criteria
  • At least 4 years of full-time postgraduate training (or its equivalent gained on a part-time basis) of which at least 2 years will be in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty or as a fixed term specialty trainee or shall have equivalent experience and competencies

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Employers for CarersApprenticeships logoAge positiveDisability confident employerHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - GoldEmployers Network for Equality & InclusionCareer Confident EmployerTop Employers for Working Families 2021Top 10 Employer 2023

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Dr Vincent Perry
Job title
Medical Director
Email address
[email protected]
Additional information

To apply for this role, please visit www.careers.nelft.nhs.uk or www.jobs.nhs.uk and search under job reference number 395-MED435-24.

For more information, hear directly from our clinicians in ARD, by accessing this video link: Working for NELFT in our ARD Medical Directorate

We encourage you to view our Trust website and read the news stories, which will give you more information about the breadth of the organisation and our innovative services. Please visit www.careers.nelft.nhs.uk/why-join-us or www.nelft.nhs.uk

Please also view our social media pages to get an insight into life at #TeamNELFT.

Twitter: @NELFT / NELFTCareers

LinkedIn: NELFT NHS Foundation Trust | LinkedIn

Facebook: NELFT | London | Facebook

 For further details / informal visits contact:

Associate Medical Director: Dr Shazia Hashmi

[email protected]

 Medical Director: Dr Sarah Dracass     

[email protected]

Medical Director: Dr Vincent Perry       

[email protected]

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